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In article <3k7ron$9vg_001@simi.rain.org> noah@rain.org (Matt Noah) writes:
>I thought she and her husband had been drummed out of the scientific
>community for their so-called research.  Does anyone still believe
>either of them as having anything relevant to say about population?
>Other than Planned Parenthood or some abortionist/contraception
>company they can't have any serious funding, do they?

I've read two of their books, "Population Explosion", and "New World, 
New Mind" (which was a bad title, IMHO, because it sounds 
to new-agish, which it wasn't at all), and have thought they were 
excellent.  It was kind of like sitting in on a very good lecture
of a very good college professor.   These books were popular non-ficiton
though, so I don't know if they still publish any "real" scientific
papers, or where their funding comes from (other than a pay check 
from Stanford University) or been "drummed out of the scientific community",
whatever that means.

I've somewhat divided feelings about their work ... on the one hand
I'm very pro-environment (love the outdoors) and they've helped convinced me 
that overpopulation is one of the biggest environmental problems we face  
(yes there are others).  Adding about 100 million MORE people 
onto the planet every year isn't good (even though I'm sure I'd 
like each and every one of them).  Just as I think the 5.6 billion 
people already here (hi everybody!) are really wonderful folks (never met
a human I didn't like), I think that is way to many for this planet to 
handle over the long run.  However, I find most of their solutions
to the overpopulation problem (although I like them and vote in a minute
to put them in place) aren't going to happen (for many reasons ... political,
social, etc, etc).  Which makes me rather sad for the future generation(s).

And I doubt you'll see either of them as guests on the Hehr Limbaugh's show. :-)

John S. Watson                  
NASA Ames Research Center MS/243-9, Moffett Field, CA 94035
<a href="http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/~watson/watson.html">John S. Watson</a>

"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone ..."